Flying sharks! It’s another disaster movie: What happens when sharks are sucked up by a tornado and flung into the streets of Los Angeles? The schlocky, low-budget telemovie Sharknado sent Twitter into meltdown when it aired in the US two weeks ago. As it is fast-tracked to Australian pay TV screens this weekend, we talk to director Anthony C. Ferrante about how he hit the zeitgeist jackpot.

And we ask, is television still television? Cultural theorist Graeme Turner and writer Tom Wright discuss the way TV consumption is evolving in the digital age, and how this is changing us.

Plus, the royal baby and the pageantry and myth-making of the modern monarchy.